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Job Chapter 3

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JOB

Job 3

1Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:15, Psalms 106:33
2And Iob cryed out, and sayd,
Judges 18:14, Judges 18:14
3Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.
Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 10:18, Job 10:19
4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,
Revelation 16:10, Matthew 27:45, Acts 27:20, Amos 5:18, Exodus 10:22
5But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Psalms 23:4, Job 10:21, Job 10:22
6Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.
7Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.
Isaiah 24:8, Jeremiah 7:34, Revelation 18:22, Revelation 18:23, Isaiah 13:20
8Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.
Job 41:1, Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Job 41:10, Job 41:25
9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,
Job 41:18, Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 8:15
10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.
Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:5, 1 Samuel 1:5
11Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18, Job 10:19, Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18
12Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 50:23
13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
Job 17:13, Job 19:27, Job 7:21, Job 21:23, Job 14:10
14With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:
Job 15:28, Job 15:28, Isaiah 14:10, Isaiah 14:16, Isaiah 14:10
15Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Zephaniah 1:18, Isaiah 2:7, Job 22:25
16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
Psalms 58:8, Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:8
17The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.
Revelation 14:13, Revelation 14:13, Job 17:16, Job 17:16, Job 14:13
18The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
Job 39:7, Job 39:7, Judges 4:3, Isaiah 14:3, Isaiah 14:4
19There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.
Job 30:23, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7
20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
Jeremiah 20:18, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 7:15
21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
Revelation 9:6, Revelation 9:6, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:4, Jonah 4:3
22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
23Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job 19:8, Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 3:7, Isaiah 40:27
24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Psalms 102:9, Psalms 102:9, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:4
25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
Job 1:5, Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 30:15, Job 31:23
26I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.
Job 7:14, Job 7:14, Job 27:9, Psalms 143:11, Job 27:9

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